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Lucas Associates

Landscape architect · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

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Checked12 October 2026
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Lucas Associates

Landscape architect · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

Where you stand#157of 252 architects
Overall health3.8/10across the eight areas

Going well

01Google listing8.202Reviews6.5

Where we can help

07Google search and traffic5.705Facebook page3.008Opening hours1.703Map positions1.604Listings and social1.606Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Lucas Associates is a Christchurch-based landscape architecture practice led by Di Lucas. They specialise in landscape and environmental planning across Aotearoa New Zealand, offering landscape assessment, ecology and restoration, natural character analysis, community consultation, heritage values work and sustainable resource management. Projects span regional frameworks to site-specific planning for community groups, iwi, landowners and government agencies.

Lucas Associates is a landscape architecture practice based in Ōtautahi Christchurch led by Di Lucas. The studio focuses on landscape and environmental planning across Aotearoa New Zealand and makes a range of resource material available from decades of work.

Services include landscape assessment, landscape ecology and restoration, natural character analysis, community consultation, heritage-values assessment, sustainable resource management, creative problem solving and project documentation. The practice also offers tools such as integrated farm plans that outline land use areas and carbon-emissions budgets.

Clients range from community groups, iwi and landowners to industry bodies and government agencies. Reviews indicate customers tend to describe the work as harmonious with a vernacular feeling, and the practice holds a high average rating reflecting consistent client satisfaction.

Locally, Lucas Associates is known for working across scales from broad regional and town frameworks to detailed planning and restoration for specific sites. The practice's combination of technical landscape assessment, ecological restoration and community-focused consultation distinguishes it within Christchurch and across projects in other parts of New Zealand.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Lucas Associates shows a solid presence on Google, with a verified listing and accessible contact details, but the health score sits at 4.6 out of 10. The strongest finding is that the listing already includes a website link, a clear title, a claimed status, a phone number and a descriptive summary. The main gap is status visibility and growing photo evidence.

Strengths

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    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.

Top two opportunities

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    Photos on the listingYou have fewer photos than nearly every business here, so a customer comparing you against them builds a picture of their work and guesses at yours.
  • 2
    Category fitYour categories cover less of this market than nearly every competitor, so someone searching for a job you actually do is shown a list your listing was never entered into.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 5 of them.
8.2Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
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From the business

Di Lucas, landscape architect Director of Lucas Associates Limited, Christchurch, a Registered NZILA Landscape Architect and Fellow member of NZILA (1987), Di works in community-friendly planning and design processes for creative and sustainable solutions. Having skills in landscape assessment, landscape ecology and restoration, natural character analysis, community consultation, heritage values, sustainable resource management, creative problem solving and documentation, Di works on a range of projects around Aotearoa New Zealand. Projects vary in scale from broad frameworks for regions, districts and towns to planning development or restoration for specific sites, working for community, industry, landowners, iwi and government agencies.

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Your reviews

Lucas Associates shows an above-average health score of 6.5 out of 10 in Google Business reviews, indicating solid performance with room to improve engagement and momentum. The strongest opportunities lie in responding to reviews to build trust, and maintaining positive momentum to push towards the top quartiles in star rating and total reviews.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
  • 2
    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit behind half the businesses here, so a customer weighing three listings has slightly less reason to trust yours.
  • 3
    Review countYour review count sits under the middle of this market, so you are readable to a customer without yet being convincing.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
6.5Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Google reviewsChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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Where you show up on the map

Lucas Associates shows a low overall health on Google Maps search performance, with a 1.8/10 health score. The business ranks for a few top keywords, notably landscape architect in christchurch centre, edgeware and richmond (christchurch city). Opportunities focus on improving aggregate Maps visibility and strengthening borough-level presence to lift local search results.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou appear in a handful of Maps searches across the suburbs around you, far fewer than most businesses here.
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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches, but below most businesses in your suburb, so a customer looking from a nearby street is shown someone else first.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
1.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Map positionsChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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Where customers find you

Lucas Associates has a very low health score, with opportunities concentrated on adding active profiles across major social platforms and key directories. The most impactful findings are absence of active Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn Company, and TikTok Directory profiles, limiting local visibility. Current achievements include up-to-date LinkedIn, Neighbourly and Yellow Directory listings.

Strengths

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    Yellow ProfileWe can see your Yellow Profile listing (https://yellow.co.nz/y/lucas-associates-landscape-architects-579501820) found via: Google search results.
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    Neighbourly ProfileWe can see your Neighbourly Profile listing (https://www.neighbourly.co.nz/business/lucas-associates) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Having a Facebook page at allWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing.
  • 2
    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 3
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
18 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
1.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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FacebookNo account found1
InstagramNo account found2
TiktokNo account found3
Listings and socialChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Facebook pageCriticalWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing. Shown at a typical score for this market.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 1 of them.
3.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Facebook pageChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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Your website

Lucas Associates shows solid on-page SEO fundamentals with a health score of 4.5 out of 10. The page has an H1 tag, an SEO-friendly URL, a concise page size under 256KB, and a relevant meta description and title tag. Focus should be on improving load speed, favicon presence, and fine-tuning meta description and title tag to boost visibility and user experience.

Strengths

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    Domain UniquenessYour web address is yours alone, so everything your site earns - links, mentions, search standing - accumulates under your name and stays with the business.
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    Page file sizeYour home page is light enough to open quickly on a phone with a weak signal, which is where most people meet a local business for the first time.
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    H1 heading tagYour home page opens with a proper heading, so a visitor landing cold and a search engine reading the page are both told what this business is in the first line.

Top three opportunities

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    On-page scoreThe basics on your home page are half in place: it opens and it reads, but enough checks still fail that a customer on a phone away from wifi notices the wait before they notice the business.
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    Meta descriptionYour search summary sits just outside a workable length, so a searcher either gets less than the space allows or loses the tail of it.
  • 3
    Domain HealthYour site answers, but something did not check out - an insecure link, a redirect chain, a domain shared with other businesses, or a listing pointing at a social page.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
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How people find you on Google

Lucas Associates shows an above-average health score for website traffic at 5.9/10, suggesting there is room for improvement though overall stability exists. The most notable findings are modest organic traffic value and a mid-range organic traffic total, with opportunities to grow paid traffic and paid keyword presence. Attention should focus on structured paid campaigns and ongoing content plus technical SEO.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    What you spend on adsWe can see no paid search activity for your site, which in most local markets is the norm rather than a gap.
  • 2
    Monthly ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
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    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth less than half the businesses here, so the people arriving are browsing rather than buying.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
5.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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3About 36 visits a month from search, across 23 searches
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Your hours against demand

Lucas Associates has no recorded opening hours, so alignment with local demand cannot be measured. Because there are no hours, no specific strong alignment or concrete missed peak windows can be identified. The low temporal health score (1.5/10) suggests adding hours to the listing. Practical next steps are to publish accurate opening times and monitor search-demand trends to align availability with client enquiry peaks.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandWe could not measure your hours against local demand, which almost always means your listing shows no opening hours at all.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
1.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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01Google listing2 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page1 opportunity

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#157of 252 Christchurch architects
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Christchurch architectsOverall · 252 businesses
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